#vol

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying? ↗

— Voltaire

#volume #art

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#evolution #expression #innovation #art

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. ↗

— Garth Stein

#dog #evolution #art

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#always #appears #been #between #books

What art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #tybalt #art

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#artists #creativity #dissent #failure #revolution

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#jennifer-donnelly #revolution #urban #beauty

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#french-revolution #ya-novel #beauty

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#class-struggle #excess #french-revolution #grandeur #louis-xiv

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure. ↗

— Voltaire

#pleasure #voltaire #beauty